We're currently watching this movie, "Gods and Generals", for history. It is set in civil-war, pre-Gettysburg times. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain is a key player.
Micah eats this stuff up and Kevin really likes it too.
This fits in to our Maine Studies unit. Both Noelle & Micah have read No Place For Little Boys edited by Melissa MacCrae and Maureen Bradford, illustrated by David Priesing. It is a war story, told through the letters of a Union soldier from Carmel, Maine. (That's where we live!)
In addition, we visited Joshua Chamberlain's home in Brunswick, Maine, and really learned a lot there.
At any rate, yesterday Kevin joined us for awhile to watch some of this movie. It caused him to look up some things about Joshua Chamberlain's grandfather who was court-martialed after the Battle of Hampden. (This is the town where Kevin grew up.) He recalled learning a little about this in school. As he told us a bit yesterday, he said -
"This took place right around the corner from the school. Why didn't they just take us there to where it happened? I would have learned so much more and it would have been so interesting."
This was a great reminder to me that how we teach or-
as some would say - how we learn things is so important.
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